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“The… place where he have been alive, Undead for all these centuries, is full of strangeness of the geologic & chemical world. There are deep caverns & fissures that reach none know whither. There have been volcanoes.. whose openings still send out waters of strange properties, & gases that kill or make to vivify. Doubtless, there is something magnetic or electric in some of these combinations of occult forces”

“Don't say such things, Jonathan, my husband, or you will crush me with fear and horror[…]perhaps… some day… I, too, may need such pity, and that some other like you, and with equal cause for anger, may deny it to me! […] But I pray that God may not have treasured your wild words, except as the heart-broken wail of a very loving and sorely stricken man.

Chapter 22 has been my favorite so far. My heart hurts….

Johnathan’s heart is about to fall out of his ass

Okay i need to hurry and finish this because all of the characters are starting to irritate me. I dislike that Stoker sets them up to be all very well informed, then suddenly clueless.


Like Mina just pointed out that the same thing happened with Lucy in meeting dracula and jonathan, but oh.. it’s just a dream. Girl u just transcribed the groups entire knowledge/history of him, be ffr. I know its a book but gosh..

“It seemed as though corruption had become itself corrupt. Faugh! It sickens me to think of it. Every breath exhaled by that monster seemed to have clung to the place and intensified its loathsomeness.”

LMAOOO he mad af he gotta go hunt down this stinky ass nigga

Dr.Seward has a terrible gut instinct, but tbh I would’ve reacted the same way… He cannot think outside of scientific method. If much evidence points to Renfield being a looney, then it’s sound to conclude that this is another episode.

Van helsing knows, but he is just slow to react. It’s like he doesn’t interfere with fate... I wonder if he belives in fate. Probably not.

Van Helsing is better than me. I would’ve just done it without Arthur’s permission. I guess he just wants to be an honest man, which is admirable…. But, It’s not like Arthur was going ever open her casket.

“I heard once of an American who so defined faith, 'that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue.' .. We shall have an open mind, and not let a little bit of truth check the rush of the big truth, like a small rock does a railway truck. We get the small truth first. Good! We keep him, and we value him, but all the same we must not let him think himself all the truth in the universe.”

Do not think that I am not sad, though I laugh… I have cried even when the laugh did choke me. But no more think that I am all sorry when I cry, for the laugh he come just the same. Keep it always with you that laughter who knock at your door and say, 'May I come in?' is not true laughter. No! He is a king, and he come when and how he like. He ask no person, he choose no time of suitability. He say, 'I am here.’